Comeback stories: bald eagles, humpback whales, condors and the kakapo, sentence 5

Humpback whales were hunted almost to extinction; after a ban on commercial whaling in 1986, many groups grew strongly, and there are now tens of thousands.

Who acts: many groups, tens · What happens: hunt, grow, be · To what, where: Humpback whales

This is a sentence of the lesson «Comeback stories: bald eagles, humpback whales, condors and the kakapo» of the biology course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (many groups, tens), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Humpback	humpback	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 whales	compound
2	whales	whale	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 hunted	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 hunted	aux:pass
4	hunted	hunt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	almost	almost	ADV	_	7 extinction	advmod
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 extinction	case
7	extinction	extinction	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hunted	obl
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 grew	punct
9	after	after	ADP	_	11 ban	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 ban	det
11	ban	ban	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 grew	obl
12	on	on	ADP	_	14 whaling	case
13	commercial	commercial	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 whaling	amod
14	whaling	whaling	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 ban	nmod
15	in	in	ADP	_	16 1986	case
16	1986	1986	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	11 ban	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 grew	punct
18	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 groups	amod
19	groups	group	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 grew	nsubj
20	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 hunted	parataxis
21	strongly	strongly	ADV	_	20 grew	advmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 are	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 are	cc
24	there	there	PRON	_	25 are	expl
25	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 grew	conj
26	now	now	ADV	_	25 are	advmod
27	tens	ten	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 are	nsubj
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 thousands	case
29	thousands	thousand	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 tens	nmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 hunted	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hunt	past · passive		Humpback whales			to extinction	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	grow	past	many groups			after a ban on commercial whaling in 1986	strongly property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	does	present	tens of thousands		there	now		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:biology:282-comeback-stories-bald-eagles-humpback-whales-condors-and-the-kakapo.lesson:5.

The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R7-rel-agree ×1. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

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